Multithreaded File Compare Performance
问题 I just stumbled onto this SO question and was wondering if there would be any performance improvement if: The file was compared in blocks no larger than the hard disk sector size (1/2KB, 2KB, or 4KB) AND the comparison was done multithreaded (or maybe even with the .NET 4 parallel stuff) I imagine there being 2 threads: one that reads from the beginning of the file and another that reads from the end until they meet in the middle. I understand in this situation the disk IO is going to be the